A prominent Italian newspaper has been ordered to pay €15,000 in damages to Shawan Jabarin, the general director of Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, for falsely accusing him in 2021 of being a terrorist and murderer.
In a joint statement on Wednesday, Al-Haq and the European Legan Support Center (ELSC) said the Il Corriere Della Sera had published the claims days after Jabarin was invited to join a hearing at the Chamber of Deputies in the Italian Parliament on December 20, 2021, following Israel’s designation of Palestinian NGOs as ‘terrorist organizations’.
Two days after the hearing, Il Corriere della Sera published an article “containing false and defamatory statements” about the Addameer organization, Al-Haq, and Jabarin, labeling him a “terrorist”.

Palestine Chronicle report